"Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express."

-- George A. Smith

#Memories Quotes #Passion Quotes #Pride Quotes

“There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money; for when money can be had in this way, repayment is seldom thought of in time, the interest becomes a loss, exertions to raise it by dent of industry cease, it comes easy and is spent freely, and many things (are) indulged in that would never be thought of if (they were) to be purchased by the sweat of the brow.”
“Suicide is the means of men whose resilience has been eaten away by rust, the rust of the daily round. They were born for action, but they have delayed their action; so action turns back on them with the swing of a pendulum. Suicide is an act, the act of those who have not been able to accomplish others. It is an act of faith, like all acts. Faith in oneâ€™s neighbor, in the existence of oneâ€™s neighbor, in the reality of the self and the other selves.”
“Trying to impress people who hate you is just a big waste of time.”
“Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.”

Source : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan
“New York's niche is content, and content is becoming more valuable. Just think about what is more valuable: MTV or the cable system that you use to get MTV? Howard Stern or the radio station you use to listen to him? Ultimately, technology becomes a commodity, and content - real, true branded content - becomes more valuable.”
“Truth is, it's a relief to finally put my life in the hands of someone I trust.”
“I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.”

Source : Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.10, Penguin

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